"Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was moderately complicated, having many external components with which to communicate. To avoid total confusion, my team applied extreme programming (XP) methods, which emphasize testing, as much as we could to the project. But we encountered technical problems testing the view part: how would we perform unit tests and automate acceptance tests?"
"Alex Ruiz follows up his popular JavaOne 2007 presentation with this introduction to test-driven GUI development with FEST. Learn what differentiates FEST (formerly TestNG-Abbot) from other GUI testing frameworks and get a hands-on introduction to Swing GUI testing with this fast-growing developer testing library. Video demonstrations and working code examples are included."
"UISpec4J is an open source functional and/or unit-testing Java library for Swing-based Java applications that is focused on simplicity. UISpec4J's APIs are designed to hide, as much as possible, the complexity of Swing, resulting in easy-to-write and easy-to-read test scripts."
"Right out of the gate you'll start working with code to drive a desktop GUI. You'll discover the kinds of gotchas and edge cases that don't exist in simple, toy programs. As you add more tests, you'll learn how to organize your test code and write lucid examples. The result is a series of "smoke tests" your team will run on Continuous Integration servers."
